6. February: 189 humans, under it 164 German tourists, died with the crash Boeing 757 a that Turkish airline saving air briefly after the start of the airport of the coastal town Puerto Plata/Dominican republic in the sea. The airplane had been chartered by a German tour operator and should bring tourists from Germany to Frankfurt. A cause of the crash was technicalFailure followed of human failure

2. September: With maintenance work long mountain a 165 meter high transmitting pole falls over on the area of the transmitting plant. There were no hurt ones, it developed howeverDamage to property of 5,3 million DM